Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 06:54:21 -0700 From: Mike Staples <mstaples-AT-argusqa.com> Subject: Re: WhatAboutDreyfus? Stuart R Elden wrote: > I take Dreyfus > to be suggesting that AI might enable us to get computers to think how > they > think we think, but not how H/D argues we think. Stuart, I'm not sure what you said here. I may be misreading you. Sounds like you are saying that Dreyfus is suggesting that AI miht enable us to get computers to "think" at all..."think" meaning think the way Dasein thinks. If this is the case, then you are indeed wrong on this point. Dreyfus has built his entire career around the proposition that computers don't think, and may never think. Of course saying this entails a lot of discussion about what thinking is, but Dreyfus defines what computers currently do (rule-based calculation) as something entirely different than what people do, thinking-wise. Perhaps that is what you said anyway, and I just missed your point here. Michael Staples --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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